Are you still wiping groceries?

[Lovely1a2b3c]

Just that! We have been wiping food shopping items as some of the family are vulnerable (not shielding) but wondering if it's time to stop?

Yes. We wipe everything before we put it away.

Definitely. I think I always will now, it doesn't take long and I'm shocked by the colour of the water even with a new cloth each time, Covid or not! 🙈

I still do. It's quicker to wipe them down with soapy water than it is to have to wash my hands every single time I go in the cupboard or the fridge.

I have a quarantine cupboard so I pop dry goods in there and don't use them for a couple of weeks. I wipe things for the fridge or freezer. I open packets of veg and dump straight into the salad drawer of the fridge or into a bowl I put in the fridge. I've always washed fruit and veg before eating anyway. I pack in the supermarket according to what goes where.

Household goods I buy in advance. It's really not that much extra to do now I've got a system. I drove myself quite mad in the beginning. It's more half hearted now and I don't worry about it.

Still cleaning products. It’s quite laborious though.

I never have.

When I remember. My 80 year old parents still do.

We do it.

Never wiped shopping down, just washed hands after.

Lovely1a2b3c

Just that! We have been wiping food shopping items as some of the family are vulnerable (not shielding) but wondering if it's time to stop?

How many of your relatives have had recent body part transplants? None/one/more?

How many of your relatives have recently exited HDU/SCU/CBU?

None/more?

If you are privileged enough to pidr this from a country with a functioning social healthcare system, then do sod' off with your disingenuous faux naive time wasting questions.

Thanks geezer.

*post, not pidr

There might have been a place for this when the R rate was high but I don't do it and never did.

No, never been wiping groceries. Only wiped a cardboard delivery box once, and that was because the delivery man left it in a puddle of water outside. Never purchased sanitiser stuff, just use bar soap to wash hands.

I do do. And will continue. I am a nurse, have X2 vulnerable in house.

Never mind them, my patients are high risk. So yes, I will be super cautious. Unless anyone knows of a vaccine/cure I've missed?

Just the fridge stuff gets a quick wipe.

And whatever I'm gonna use within a day or two.

Quite a high-risk strategy

@AdesteFideles
Really? I felt I was being a bit over paranoid if anything.

I wipe them with debtol wipes though. And the rest of the stuff that isnt getting used for a few days is kept separate from everything else. Freezer stuff I just stick straight in the freezer cause it probably wont be used for a while anyway.

Think much more would be overkill tbh

Yes, but we are shielding.

Anything to go in the fridge, or be used within 72hrs gets washed. All else is quarantined separately for 3 days.

I do also wash/decant the frozen stuff.

@Bunnymumy

Coronavirus can live in the freezer for 2 years.

I remove external packaging (wearing gloves) or quarantine the items. I also quarantine all the post.

No, it never seemed like a sensible idea to me. Slippery slope as someone else said.

Daaaym. Guess I'll have to wipe that stuff down too then :/

Realistically though, highly unlikely the virus is going to be on the packaging in the first place though. At least in enough active quantity to spread.

I mean think about how many cold and flu germs must be about and yet I haven't caught one in like 7 years. Yet when I lived with a few other ppl I'd catch it twice yearly without fail. Its person to person contact you mostly have to worry about.

Still, better safe than sorry I guess.

Never was

Yes. I decant what I can eg. Flour, sugar, rice and then give my hands a really good wash. Then I wipe down the rest of the shopping.

Out of interest how do they know coronavirus can live in freezer for two years? Is this all coronavirus or just Covid 19 which hasn't been around for two years? And at what strength is it after two years? Have you a link to the information please?